SK Telecom Starts Video Mobile Phone Service 
South Korea became the first nation to start a commercial HSDPA, or high-speed downlink packet access, service, a new mobile phone technology that provides clearer and smoother phone-to-phone video calls and enables a multiple-user video chatting service.
SK Telecom, the nation’s largest mobile career, said on Tuesday that it is launching the service in 25 major cities nationwide. The service will be expanded to less populous areas to cover more than 90 percent of cell phone users in Korea by the end of the year, the company said.
Often referred to as 3.5G, HSDPA is a wireless technology that bridges present third-generation systems, wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA), and fourth-generation platforms that have yet to be commercialized.
# The Korea Times [May 17, 2006]By Cho Jin-seo
Staff Reporter
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